The sound is caused by tree cells dying? Why are they dying in such a
regular rhythm? That makes no sense at all. If these were the sounds of
tree cells dying, they would be random. More like white noise. The cells
don’t “line up” for their chance to die. Why not the sound of a straw
slurping when the liquid gets too low? This is regular, and the tree’s
cells are like long straws.

Bernie, would love to get the book, hopefully I can find it in Singapore!
Love the You Tube seminar version of Orchestra. In this recording, that’s
the sound of cells dying? And insects/birds come for the sap, but of
course, I am presuming they can’t hear the cells dying…

This correlates with something I have been playing with, which is the
concept that signals within cells or organisms can be thought of as sound.
a kind of meeting of music geometry and information. Sound in this context
is a series of arrangements each making their case, summing to a whole
which may be thought of as a kind of jazz representing the beliefs a cell
has. These kinds of relationship are fascinating. interconnections on so
many levels.